Regarding the weird shovel in McMurphy's inventory: It might have an explanation. I seem to recall mention somewhere that the intro cutscene with Benny & the 2 Khans was originally intended on being an in-engine scene, as opposed to a cinematic. Maybe the shovel was altered for the animation, and never got taken away when the scene changed.
Almost definitely he would of buried you using it probably would of been a real item if it did happen and would of had an achievement for killing benny with it
The syringer mystery might be solved by how the authorities handled the rioting. In Boston you really didn't want to go around shooting people waiting in the breadlines or if you were on the other side, you could take down cops or GIs without killing, saving yourself a murder charge. In Appalachia we see the mining companies and miners were just at war, meaning killing was a lot more common.
Military/cops didn't care about shooting rioters in the fallout universe. It was martial law in the US and you would get gunned down if you acted out. Same with rioters, they knew they were going to get severely injured or killed trying to fight the police, so they reacted with violence aswell
The cops and Pinkertons killing miners happened in real life, there was a war fought, and unfortunately the cops and the capitalists won. But I am going to propose that shooting a cop with a syringe full of stuff is gonna get you hit by the books as hard as if you'd shot lead. Also, ACAB
I own a plunger for home defense. "Why" because that's what the Mario Bros intended. Three super mutant break into my vault, I throw crap in the face of the first one while my stock Mr. Handy (that, for some reason, has a flamer) turns number two into radiation ribeye. The third begins running toward the gates. At that point, I take my three star flaming, lucky, freezing, and bleeding pipe wrench and tap the final mutie once, turning him into a reddish-yellow paste on the wall
You could probably argue that the Syringers found in hospitals and other pre-war medical locations were also made post-war. Like, a survivor takes shelter in the husk of the hospital, and builds a gun-like weapon that can fire the only readily-available ammo-shaped item; hypodermic syringers.
no not all of them. pipe weapons WERE very prevalent in areas such as Detroit according to a Guns and Bullets magazine cover, but most are likely post war. @@slimcurry7117
I just had a theory idea: 76's Orbital Strike Beacon is calling the Bradley-Hercules platform from Broken Steel to do the bombarding. The reason it takes longer and shoots salvos instead of single rounds in Broken Steel could be a consequence of well over a century of disuse since Appalachia, and it had to take a moment to realign for D.C. to attack Liberty Prime (and realign again for AFB and the Citadel). The Enclave may even have unique permission to make it shoot salvos instead of single missiles.
Iirc, there’s another place in fallout 4 you can find a syringer in an unmarked two-story building northeast of Kendall Hospital called Plumber’s Secret. If you follow a trail of plungers stuck to the wall and ceiling, you can find it held up by boards nailed to the ceiling, along with a caps stash.
There is also one in the basement of the Fort Hagen Blood Clinic. I like to rush there to get it in the early game. If you want to get some of the lunch box mines nearby to kill the infected blood bug.
There is another syringe rifle in the back room of a roadside stand with a lot of vegetables not to far from Vault 81. It is up above the player by the door.
Or they are just weakened airguns, modified to shoot darts instead of 50. cal ball ammo. Cause look at the syringer, Really its a airgun and airguns are used to hunt big game, like Buck. The ammo being needles could be the post-war misunderstanding on what the airgun is used for
It should have more potent effects as well. I'm surprised there isn't a dart that acts like the Dart gun from fallout 3 that cripples their legs instantly? The problem with the syringer is that for the need to craft the ammo and the effects really just aren't effective even in the mid game. Such a weapon needs some rediculous powerful stuff to justify the hassle of making ammo that it's worth it
There’s a simple mod I like called Hack Darts that lets you make a hack dart for the syringer rifle. It basically works as long range robotics expert hack.
@@mikzpwnz_3199 It's like the designers suddenly forgot one of the primary 'rules' that most games and most guns in F4 adhere to- the more expensive the ammunition, the more *effective* the weapon is. The recipes are also overcomplicated garbage- it requires too many specific components, in illogical combinations, compared to almost all of the other crafting in the game. Glass + steel = syringe, syringe + chem = ammo. Then throw out the random chance, make the effects more potent, and you'd actually have a weapon that people would use non-ironically.
@zincorium1 the requirement of specific junk components felt like a holdover from Fallout 3. One of the best things 4 does is that it doesn't require specific junk for a lot of weapons, can you imagine if you could still only make railway rifles if you found pressure tanks and steam gauges?
The Chakram was put in there because at the time Fallout Tactics was being developed/released, Xena Warrior Princess was crazy popular on TV and that was like her trademark weapon in the show.
Weird baseless theory for the synth relay grenades still working after institute was destroyed is institute established a forward base somewhere that still produces synths with parts they scavenge on raids as a kinda backup plan along with not having every synth that teleports out coming from the institute itself.
@@anthonythanghe4755 In the United States, for every 5 people, one of them owns 6 firearms. Combined with the staggering quantity of ammunition scattered throughout, there would likely not be a driving need to develop post-war bows and crossbows, particularly after the Gun Runners get up and running. Still doesn't explain why pre-War samples are only found in Appalachia though.
@@Bubben246yea lots of guns and ammo are in the US, however bows and arrows have a lot of practicality for people, for starters, no gunpowder is needed, gunpowder would be pretty expensive after a hundred years, after 200 it would be pretty much just what is being produced, which would be at a high premium, or very low quality coming from people that kinda guess the formula and manage to not kill themselves while doing so, bows also have the advantage of being able to avoid attention, a pistol fired will alert nearby ghouls, a bow won't, yes the bow would be a weapon used when it's convenient, but with how many bows and arrows there are today, in the numbers and there advantage in economical ammo use they have real staying power, double so to a syringe gun
@Leeloo_the_fox Bows are usually owned by hunters. most fallout games take place in mostly metropolitan locations, so bow hunters would be less common, and there for less likely to find bows.
Maybe the nuclear material in the Turbo-Fert bombs is in reference to nuclear farms, where plants are irradiated and then grown to see if useful mutations occur. Also regarding the syringer I feel like it would've heavily benefited from a normal "damage ammo" so that it could be used for combat more accessibly. Perhaps a simple air embolism syringe would work.
In the case of the Orbital Strike Beacon and it's payload that gets launched, my theory is that its some kind of Kinetic bombardment, launched by a railgun like device from the satellite, Kinetic bombardment, using an innate rod of metal launched at such a high velocity would produce a large explosion, however maybe my hypothesis on this is completely wrong
It could just be a satellite launched super dense rods that fall to the Earth. As long as the material could survive reentry… that would do significant damage.
Agree on all points except the railgun part, a metal rod would gain huge amounts of velocity anyways and railgun would push the satellite just as much as the rod. In real life of course, not all physics in Fallout universe compare to ours.
@@mirko241 Yeah that does make sense, I really only included the railgun part as a kind of explanation for how fast the ordnance hits the ground, I thought there would be a longer delay if it wasn't propelled in some fashion
the vox syringer has been glued to my hand since i was unfortunate enough to find it, i chucklrd when you said rare even though youre 100% right. not even sure ive ever seen another one
Hi Radking, I love your videos I thought of some fallout topics id really like to see you do one day -Enclave locations and impact on the wasteland -Pre war general readiness (vaults, did people really think the war was gonna happen?, stockpiles, etc) -A fallout complete timeline, all major events, up to you if you wanna do it by each game released or fallouts in-game lore (also side idea perhaps you could also do a behind the scenes edition aswell, all of fallouts cut content, and internally what was going on in Bethesda during each games creation and release) -A creatures of the wasteland video would also be very interesting, a comprehensive collection of all the wildlife, friend or foe
Theres a real life analog of the syringer used for medicating cattle. Any vet that dealt with a lot of beef cattle would have one. A pneumatic version is made by Pneu-dart and its called the X-caliber G2 RDD projector. Theres others made by different companies that use a blank cartridge for a power source. Since they can hold enough meds to knock out a cow you could fit a variety of concoctions in one.
12:31 There are a few instances in this video where you get the numbers wrong. Like the time stamp above, and a few of the FO4 Syringer ammo effects. It's not a big deal, because you show the effects on-screen. But just look out for that in the future. :p
I was playing my first playthrough of FO1 while listening to this video and your segment on the LE BBgun played right after i finished looting it from that crazy bastard's office so thanks for anticapating that when making this video!
I believe I remember a misfit weapon I didn't see on these lists, but in point lookout, there were 17 bio gas grenades rare and difficult to find they didn't do any base damage but could be lit on fire and more of a collectors item and they were also tied to the least memorable side mission in the dlc so it's easy to forget
as someone whose family has a bunch of bows and whose sisters go out hunting with compound bows i know a bit seeing the deep cave and bown bows do kinda have that very old pre history feel to them considering those bows and arrows are made out of wood , bone and for the string made out of dried out guts ,and the arrows were made out of wood and bone and later being added with stone head tips
Okay, the one gun I did not see you cover unless you covered in another video was the junk gun? There's no fun way to kill a deathclaw or super mutant with teddy bears
14:23 maybe that shovel was meant to be use in the in-game discarded animation of the beginning of the game, like how doc mitchell was intended to have the Rorschach images as a weapon
Imagine if fortune finder and scrounger, instead of just increasing cap/ammo found, added small mounds containing gear. Youd get a prompt that some stuff is near and you had to dig it up with a shovel. Add in a perk just to find additional equipment would be neat. That way there could be fewer supplies in the world snd give those perks some value, and explain why they havent been looted
I have a bow build in 76 and it’s good for taking out anything that isn’t to big,with the increased vats hit chance legendary effect you can shoot something in the head from very far away (if that effect wasn’t broken right now)
Syringer always felt to me better utilized by a companion, preferably Curie (in synth form). Sadly they will never use any of the ammo for it, not even with any mods I could find.
I'll never forget this, on my most recent playthrough of New Vegas I was a high luck, high crit, cowboy build and I decided I wanted to clear vault 3 on a whim, I killed them all with the LE version of the BB gun, I couldn't believe how effective it was 😂
I think McMurphy’s shovel might be a reference to the intro with the courier being buried alive after being shot. I didnt actually go back to watch it to confirm if it was there but even if it isn’t there might have been an idea at some point to show a shovel being used
Honestly, the syringer had so much potential. It could have so many benefits from the Chemist perk. Or hell convert it into a psuedo grenade launcher if you want it to be wacky as hell.
The next fallout game needs more pipe weapons if it's not near new Vegas since the gun runners build pre war weapons while the further away you get the less likely you are to find weapons like that. So you'd have to build pipe weapons or use a certain skill to manufacture pipe weapons and repair them rather than constantly having to find them.
in the short timers one of the soldiers goes nuts and attacks a machine gun nest with a red rider bb gun. i have no idea if that is suppose to be the reason the reanimated prewar soldier is equipped with one though.
Well I bet there’s a lot of fun to be had having a mod that gives legendary effects to weapons. The ammo get’s way more umph when the syringer is legendary I’m sure. Also, bows look great and seem to be what the syringer could have been in its potential. I will say though, id want to use a crossbow with syringe bolts as additional ammunition, plus delve into some mechanical modifications. Ngl, having a crossbow built with Gauss rifle parts would be interesting. Have the gauss barrel house the bolt and drawing the string activates the magnets. When fired, the draw force is enhanced by the magnets, firing the bolt farther and straighter. I can even see this as a bow where someone slips the arrow in the gauss barrel and it uses magnets to amplify the draw force when fired.
The syringer is the illusion magic of fallout. Really cool status effect spells... That don't work most the time or where it's most needed. Also I'm going to state this again since it was mentioned again. The pipe walking are just a "placeholder" for jerry rigged/prison weapon/homemade weaponry. People always get stuck on the idea on pipe weapons as if they were actual weapon line when in reality it's just the idea of crafting a wrapping from scraps. Something that's very needed in the wasteland but is obviously something made now daysas well and would be common during a time were tension was high inside the country. Also the syringer is just a modernized blow dart gun. And obviously sedating a target is easier if you say him from way over here. Also. McMurphy shovel is for the intro cutscenes. Hence the odd not real existince it has
Regarding the Red Rider LE, I have a few ideas. It could stand for Law Enforcement, as it often does in firearms, which has some.. interesting lore connotations to say the least. However, the other idea is that this bb gun is firing .177 cal rounds, like some higher power air guns
i think it stands for Limited Edition, and the increased damage is just a function of the better condition letting the air reservoir hold more pressure.
It is interesting how much more high quality the syringe is compared to the "pipe" guns. Those look cobbled together out of warped wood while the syringer is much higher quality looking. Like it was made by someone with significantly higher manufacturing and engineering skills
I think the Red Ryder LE shoots metal balls and that’s why it’s so much more effective. Sure the plastic balls can take out an eye the metal balls can splatter the eye and maybe go into the brain if the gun is prepared and aimed just right.
An electronic syringer would be so cool, shooting a robot would give you a 60 second count down to be your ally and fight near by enemies for you, regardless on whatever robot type your fighting. That would be so freaking cool
The stronger version of the BB Gun, aside from the movie reference, isn't as strange as it may seem. There are IRL air/CO2 guns that can deliver as much or more force than a 22LR gun. It is perfectly possible to kill a human with a 22LR, if the shooter is accurate enough to hit a sensitive spot... such as the eye. I have heard that a headshot with a 22LR can cause the bullet to "bounce" inside the skull, causing even more damage than a bullet that goes straight through. I don't know if that's true, and I haven't found any source that can confirm it, so take that for what it's worth. A shovel can be a pretty decent improvised melee weapon, though I doubt it will last for very many hits if it's swung like a bat. It would surely deal more damage than 1-3 HP.
There's a mission in fallout 76 that brings you to get a syringer which is presumably pre-war considering the mission came out before they added people into fallout 76
@@AdminAbuse ngl, unless they'll being some new plague to kill everyone I refuse to believe that random 76 Dwellers built a better society than anyone else and just dipped somewhere
The Abilene BB gun in New Vegas is actually surprisingly viable for survival runs. The BBs are dirt cheap, nearly weightless, and solid in large quantity at several shops. For 'things that are technically weapons' the paddle ball from FO4 is pretty high up there.
Ok here is a challenge for you, in fallout 4 there is a creation club set that involves ramps and giant steel balls. Those balls are classified as junk by the game which means this super heavy junk can be picked up after being crafted at any settlement and be loaded into the junk jet, enjoy the mayhem....
Just wanted to let you know, the two bow skins; The Survivors bow and the Deep Cave Hunters bow you switched the name of. Also the Bone Bow skin (named wrong on the bow but named correctly on the compound bow), just to let you know both skins can be used interchangeably on either the compound or bow.
39:05 an orbital strike, at least the real life concept known as project thor, would have been a tungsten rod dropped from orbit that deals immense damage through kinetic force alone. Another term commonly used for orbital strikes is "kinetic bombardment". They are said to travel at over mach 10. It was obviously never built, however it was due to a treaty concerning space weapons rather than impracticality.
Anyone who plays the Fallout 2d20 game just lettin y’all know I took this weapon and came up with some crazy new syringe types. My favorite is the Deathclaw Breeding Pheremones. Edit: I got you Radking!
@@AdminAbuse Deathclaw Breeding Pheremones: “Summons a deathclaw to come charging in, attacking anyone in its way who isnt the afflicted, once they reach the afflicted they’ll be dragged off for…oh dear…” Crafting Perk Requirments: Chemist, Animal Friend 2, A real sick sense of humor Component Requirements: Deathclaw Egg + Deathclaw Meat, Nuka Cherry
that guns n bullets magazine wasnt displaying a pipe gun. that was a zip gun. zip guns were and are used as a quick, slap together pistol when its crunch time.
i mean you're kinda assuming the syringer has been sitting in those medical buildings since before the war i think its entirely possible someone after the bombs fell had a syringer and set up camp in medical buildings for easy access to syringes
Given how in Fallout 76 the only well known location that has a background fitting to the syringer being closed pre war. What is now fort defiance if I can remember the name correctly. Arkos and other places having other experiments in mind. I say it's the lack of needing such a thing. West Virginia's population seemed a lot more... mentally or medically stable before the bombs.
Regarding the weird shovel in McMurphy's inventory: It might have an explanation. I seem to recall mention somewhere that the intro cutscene with Benny & the 2 Khans was originally intended on being an in-engine scene, as opposed to a cinematic. Maybe the shovel was altered for the animation, and never got taken away when the scene changed.
Almost definitely he would of buried you using it probably would of been a real item if it did happen and would of had an achievement for killing benny with it
Was thinking that exact thing, glad I wasn’t the only one.
The syringer mystery might be solved by how the authorities handled the rioting. In Boston you really didn't want to go around shooting people waiting in the breadlines or if you were on the other side, you could take down cops or GIs without killing, saving yourself a murder charge. In Appalachia we see the mining companies and miners were just at war, meaning killing was a lot more common.
Honestly, the ability to make someone REAAALY angry is underated
Possibly an immediate post war thing as well. Before Feral ghouls where understood, could it be a futile effort to pacify them for treatment?
Military/cops didn't care about shooting rioters in the fallout universe. It was martial law in the US and you would get gunned down if you acted out. Same with rioters, they knew they were going to get severely injured or killed trying to fight the police, so they reacted with violence aswell
The cops and Pinkertons killing miners happened in real life, there was a war fought, and unfortunately the cops and the capitalists won. But I am going to propose that shooting a cop with a syringe full of stuff is gonna get you hit by the books as hard as if you'd shot lead.
Also, ACAB
I own a plunger for home defense. "Why" because that's what the Mario Bros intended.
Three super mutant break into my vault, I throw crap in the face of the first one while my stock Mr. Handy (that, for some reason, has a flamer) turns number two into radiation ribeye. The third begins running toward the gates. At that point, I take my three star flaming, lucky, freezing, and bleeding pipe wrench and tap the final mutie once, turning him into a reddish-yellow paste on the wall
You could probably argue that the Syringers found in hospitals and other pre-war medical locations were also made post-war.
Like, a survivor takes shelter in the husk of the hospital, and builds a gun-like weapon that can fire the only readily-available ammo-shaped item; hypodermic syringers.
Or like tranquilizers at the zoo
The pipe weapons were made prewar
no not all of them. pipe weapons WERE very prevalent in areas such as Detroit according to a Guns and Bullets magazine cover, but most are likely post war. @@slimcurry7117
@@slimcurry7117 they existed prewar. people didnt just suddenly lose the ability to make them when the bombs dropped
@@TheSaintBigFoot Most medical facilities wouldn't need the ability to sedate a patient from a distance I don't think
I just had a theory idea: 76's Orbital Strike Beacon is calling the Bradley-Hercules platform from Broken Steel to do the bombarding. The reason it takes longer and shoots salvos instead of single rounds in Broken Steel could be a consequence of well over a century of disuse since Appalachia, and it had to take a moment to realign for D.C. to attack Liberty Prime (and realign again for AFB and the Citadel). The Enclave may even have unique permission to make it shoot salvos instead of single missiles.
Iirc, there’s another place in fallout 4 you can find a syringer in an unmarked two-story building northeast of Kendall Hospital called Plumber’s Secret. If you follow a trail of plungers stuck to the wall and ceiling, you can find it held up by boards nailed to the ceiling, along with a caps stash.
There is also one in the basement of the Fort Hagen Blood Clinic. I like to rush there to get it in the early game. If you want to get some of the lunch box mines nearby to kill the infected blood bug.
There is another syringe rifle in the back room of a roadside stand with a lot of vegetables not to far from Vault 81. It is up above the player by the door.
there's a lot of syringer locations
Or they are just weakened airguns, modified to shoot darts instead of 50. cal ball ammo.
Cause look at the syringer, Really its a airgun and airguns are used to hunt big game, like Buck.
The ammo being needles could be the post-war misunderstanding on what the airgun is used for
@muis1498Make a player home at the Boston Airport, Mechanist's Lair, or use the Home plate, put some weapon racks up, display them
I always thought the syringer needed a healing type barrel/ammo, and a few more damaging types as well
It should have more potent effects as well. I'm surprised there isn't a dart that acts like the Dart gun from fallout 3 that cripples their legs instantly?
The problem with the syringer is that for the need to craft the ammo and the effects really just aren't effective even in the mid game. Such a weapon needs some rediculous powerful stuff to justify the hassle of making ammo that it's worth it
There’s a simple mod I like called Hack Darts that lets you make a hack dart for the syringer rifle. It basically works as long range robotics expert hack.
@@mikzpwnz_3199 It's like the designers suddenly forgot one of the primary 'rules' that most games and most guns in F4 adhere to- the more expensive the ammunition, the more *effective* the weapon is. The recipes are also overcomplicated garbage- it requires too many specific components, in illogical combinations, compared to almost all of the other crafting in the game. Glass + steel = syringe, syringe + chem = ammo. Then throw out the random chance, make the effects more potent, and you'd actually have a weapon that people would use non-ironically.
The syringer needed to have an ammo type that did the same thing as the dart gun from fallout 3. Then nobody would shut up about how good it is.
@zincorium1 the requirement of specific junk components felt like a holdover from Fallout 3. One of the best things 4 does is that it doesn't require specific junk for a lot of weapons, can you imagine if you could still only make railway rifles if you found pressure tanks and steam gauges?
“Doctor, he is having a seizure and we can’t get to him in time with the meds”
*loads syringer*
“We don’t need to get to him”
Guy, with about 105 syringes in his head: wow, thanks, doc. I feel better already!
I AM ZE ÜBERMENSCH ah moment
The Chakram was put in there because at the time Fallout Tactics was being developed/released, Xena Warrior Princess was crazy popular on TV and that was like her trademark weapon in the show.
Yeah, it is definitely a Xena reference, especially with that concept art.
Rad saw fit to grace us with a new video. Truly a blessed day
I've seen the syringer being used quite well in a survival difficulty, where save-scumming is unavailable, to create legendary bloatflies.
I wouldn't call it "unavailable", you can still find sleeping bags near legendary enemies, but that bloatfly idea is interesting
Weird baseless theory for the synth relay grenades still working after institute was destroyed is institute established a forward base somewhere that still produces synths with parts they scavenge on raids as a kinda backup plan along with not having every synth that teleports out coming from the institute itself.
It still bothers me that the bow is the only weapon fired left handed
How is it that in a post apocalyptic setting, there isn’t a single bow or crossbow…
@@anthonythanghe4755 In the United States, for every 5 people, one of them owns 6 firearms. Combined with the staggering quantity of ammunition scattered throughout, there would likely not be a driving need to develop post-war bows and crossbows, particularly after the Gun Runners get up and running.
Still doesn't explain why pre-War samples are only found in Appalachia though.
@@Bubben246yea lots of guns and ammo are in the US, however bows and arrows have a lot of practicality for people, for starters, no gunpowder is needed, gunpowder would be pretty expensive after a hundred years, after 200 it would be pretty much just what is being produced, which would be at a high premium, or very low quality coming from people that kinda guess the formula and manage to not kill themselves while doing so, bows also have the advantage of being able to avoid attention, a pistol fired will alert nearby ghouls, a bow won't, yes the bow would be a weapon used when it's convenient, but with how many bows and arrows there are today, in the numbers and there advantage in economical ammo use they have real staying power, double so to a syringe gun
@Leeloo_the_fox Bows are usually owned by hunters. most fallout games take place in mostly metropolitan locations, so bow hunters would be less common, and there for less likely to find bows.
I’m left eye dominant so I really wish I could pick how my character holds guns also dual wielding, why can’t I dual wield?
Fallout 3's homemade dartgun did exactly what I wanted. It permanently crippled a target and brought its health down to half, no matter how tough.
Maybe the nuclear material in the Turbo-Fert bombs is in reference to nuclear farms, where plants are irradiated and then grown to see if useful mutations occur. Also regarding the syringer I feel like it would've heavily benefited from a normal "damage ammo" so that it could be used for combat more accessibly. Perhaps a simple air embolism syringe would work.
In fallout 3 I forgot how I built my character and perks I had but a BB gun managed to do nine damage. allowing me to do 900 damage per magazine.
Yea but now you have to use the BB gun...
@@av.punk.801 challenge excepted
In the case of the Orbital Strike Beacon and it's payload that gets launched, my theory is that its some kind of Kinetic bombardment, launched by a railgun like device from the satellite, Kinetic bombardment, using an innate rod of metal launched at such a high velocity would produce a large explosion, however maybe my hypothesis on this is completely wrong
Very much possible. A large tungsten rod thrown down from space can have the explosive Power of a small nuke if I remember correctly
Rods from God is a very real idea, and the main way you could legally put a weapon in space.
It could just be a satellite launched super dense rods that fall to the Earth. As long as the material could survive reentry… that would do significant damage.
Agree on all points except the railgun part, a metal rod would gain huge amounts of velocity anyways and railgun would push the satellite just as much as the rod. In real life of course, not all physics in Fallout universe compare to ours.
@@mirko241 Yeah that does make sense, I really only included the railgun part as a kind of explanation for how fast the ordnance hits the ground, I thought there would be a longer delay if it wasn't propelled in some fashion
The metal boomerang is definitely a reference to Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
the vox syringer has been glued to my hand since i was unfortunate enough to find it, i chucklrd when you said rare even though youre 100% right. not even sure ive ever seen another one
Hi Radking, I love your videos I thought of some fallout topics id really like to see you do one day
-Enclave locations and impact on the wasteland
-Pre war general readiness (vaults, did people really think the war was gonna happen?, stockpiles, etc)
-A fallout complete timeline, all major events, up to you if you wanna do it by each game released or fallouts in-game lore (also side idea perhaps you could also do a behind the scenes edition aswell, all of fallouts cut content, and internally what was going on in Bethesda during each games creation and release)
-A creatures of the wasteland video would also be very interesting, a comprehensive collection of all the wildlife, friend or foe
Finaly managed to catch an early upload, ive been really enjoying your content over the past few weeks, its SO cool and interesting
Theres a real life analog of the syringer used for medicating cattle. Any vet that dealt with a lot of beef cattle would have one. A pneumatic version is made by Pneu-dart and its called the X-caliber G2 RDD projector. Theres others made by different companies that use a blank cartridge for a power source. Since they can hold enough meds to knock out a cow you could fit a variety of concoctions in one.
I like how at 31:31 you tried shooting a smiley face on Dads back
12:31
There are a few instances in this video where you get the numbers wrong.
Like the time stamp above, and a few of the FO4 Syringer ammo effects.
It's not a big deal, because you show the effects on-screen.
But just look out for that in the future. :p
17:26 also this is a cool illusion.
I love the detonator that deploys the ballasts which raise the plane for the boomers! Thank you for covering it in your first episode.
radking on his way to upload a weapons video then wait months to make a part 2:
Good things take time
He's doing his research to make his videos as great as possible
Its a hobby not something he does full time if anything im impressed at how fast he does this stuff
I’m sure these videos take a while to make with how much effort he puts into them. Don’t be that guy :T
Radking on his way to remaster an ongoing series
I was playing my first playthrough of FO1 while listening to this video and your segment on the LE BBgun played right after i finished looting it from that crazy bastard's office so thanks for anticapating that when making this video!
The bb gun is in tactics... its obtained in a random encounter.
Took me a while to notice that the numbers being said in Radking's intros are from Signalis.
love that james is completely unbothered as you pelt him with bbs from 5 feet away
McMurphy’s shovel appears in the opening cutscene with Benny, so the in-game weapon was most likely part of that scene before being cut.
The Chakram is the trademark weapon of Xena Warrior Princess. She is also from New Zealand.
Yes! Another video about weapons.
I believe I remember a misfit weapon I didn't see on these lists, but in point lookout, there were 17 bio gas grenades rare and difficult to find they didn't do any base damage but could be lit on fire and more of a collectors item and they were also tied to the least memorable side mission in the dlc so it's easy to forget
as someone whose family has a bunch of bows and whose sisters go out hunting with compound bows
i know a bit
seeing the deep cave and bown bows do kinda have that very old pre history feel to them
considering those bows and arrows are made out of wood , bone and for the string made out of dried out guts ,and the arrows were made out of wood and bone and later being added with stone head tips
Okay, the one gun I did not see you cover unless you covered in another video was the junk gun? There's no fun way to kill a deathclaw or super mutant with teddy bears
14:23 maybe that shovel was meant to be use in the in-game discarded animation of the beginning of the game, like how doc mitchell was intended to have the Rorschach images as a weapon
Imagine if fortune finder and scrounger, instead of just increasing cap/ammo found, added small mounds containing gear. Youd get a prompt that some stuff is near and you had to dig it up with a shovel. Add in a perk just to find additional equipment would be neat. That way there could be fewer supplies in the world snd give those perks some value, and explain why they havent been looted
I have a bow build in 76 and it’s good for taking out anything that isn’t to big,with the increased vats hit chance legendary effect you can shoot something in the head from very far away (if that effect wasn’t broken right now)
I think you're missing the Junk Jet.
That was in part 1
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Its my bed time so it works out for me
Syringer always felt to me better utilized by a companion, preferably Curie (in synth form). Sadly they will never use any of the ammo for it, not even with any mods I could find.
Dross in that instance is from smelting, it's generally waste formed by oxidation of the metal, it's a whole thing.
I'll never forget this, on my most recent playthrough of New Vegas I was a high luck, high crit, cowboy build and I decided I wanted to clear vault 3 on a whim, I killed them all with the LE version of the BB gun, I couldn't believe how effective it was 😂
I think McMurphy’s shovel might be a reference to the intro with the courier being buried alive after being shot. I didnt actually go back to watch it to confirm if it was there but even if it isn’t there might have been an idea at some point to show a shovel being used
It is a leftover from when the opening was going to be rendered in game as opposed to a cutscene.
RadKing! Just saw the new upload! Can't watch it right now. but its on my first spot for the chill playlist for later.
Regarding bows: there actually is a crossbow bolt in the files of Fallout 3!
Honestly, the syringer had so much potential. It could have so many benefits from the Chemist perk. Or hell convert it into a psuedo grenade launcher if you want it to be wacky as hell.
I think the front of the t51 is inspired by the hull of the m48 Patton
I can see it being inspired by American Cold War tank doctrine
Just saying how greatly appreciated your videos are thank you for the great content 🙏👍
The Abilene is my favourite by far. Theres a real joy in ripping open the wasteland with a kids bb gun
I was a boy scout, too, and hunting animals was a major part of all camping trips we took.
For comedic relief i still find the rolling pin to be funniest. Even if it is technically the biggest trope of them all.
LE bb gun is the best thing you can come across on a small weapons run... also a crime they put it aside on the newer entrys
The next fallout game needs more pipe weapons if it's not near new Vegas since the gun runners build pre war weapons while the further away you get the less likely you are to find weapons like that. So you'd have to build pipe weapons or use a certain skill to manufacture pipe weapons and repair them rather than constantly having to find them.
This video makes me wonder, will we ever get a grenades of Fallout?
in the short timers one of the soldiers goes nuts and attacks a machine gun nest with a red rider bb gun. i have no idea if that is suppose to be the reason the reanimated prewar soldier is equipped with one though.
Well I bet there’s a lot of fun to be had having a mod that gives legendary effects to weapons. The ammo get’s way more umph when the syringer is legendary I’m sure.
Also, bows look great and seem to be what the syringer could have been in its potential. I will say though, id want to use a crossbow with syringe bolts as additional ammunition, plus delve into some mechanical modifications. Ngl, having a crossbow built with Gauss rifle parts would be interesting. Have the gauss barrel house the bolt and drawing the string activates the magnets. When fired, the draw force is enhanced by the magnets, firing the bolt farther and straighter. I can even see this as a bow where someone slips the arrow in the gauss barrel and it uses magnets to amplify the draw force when fired.
The syringer is the illusion magic of fallout. Really cool status effect spells... That don't work most the time or where it's most needed.
Also I'm going to state this again since it was mentioned again. The pipe walking are just a "placeholder" for jerry rigged/prison weapon/homemade weaponry. People always get stuck on the idea on pipe weapons as if they were actual weapon line when in reality it's just the idea of crafting a wrapping from scraps. Something that's very needed in the wasteland but is obviously something made now daysas well and would be common during a time were tension was high inside the country.
Also the syringer is just a modernized blow dart gun. And obviously sedating a target is easier if you say him from way over here.
Also. McMurphy shovel is for the intro cutscenes. Hence the odd not real existince it has
I really love using the Orbital Strike Beacons in 76, but they're heavy and I don't want to farm fiber optics so I didn't use them in a while.
Regarding the Red Rider LE, I have a few ideas. It could stand for Law Enforcement, as it often does in firearms, which has some.. interesting lore connotations to say the least. However, the other idea is that this bb gun is firing .177 cal rounds, like some higher power air guns
i think it stands for Limited Edition, and the increased damage is just a function of the better condition letting the air reservoir hold more pressure.
It is interesting how much more high quality the syringe is compared to the "pipe" guns. Those look cobbled together out of warped wood while the syringer is much higher quality looking. Like it was made by someone with significantly higher manufacturing and engineering skills
I think the Red Ryder LE shoots metal balls and that’s why it’s so much more effective. Sure the plastic balls can take out an eye the metal balls can splatter the eye and maybe go into the brain if the gun is prepared and aimed just right.
Can confirm. Me and my brother found one today and they are indeed metal balls.
The shovel mcmurphy has is easy to explain, it's the shovel hes using to bury you at the start of the game
i love that the red robot in the background on 76 looks like it's trying to sneak past as he's talking about the bow
The Thirst Zapper was overlooked
An electronic syringer would be so cool, shooting a robot would give you a 60 second count down to be your ally and fight near by enemies for you, regardless on whatever robot type your fighting. That would be so freaking cool
It’d be really cool and make a lot of sense for the boomerang to do bonus crippling damage
Good stuff. Many thanks.
Glory to Atom, thank you for this video of armaments.
The stronger version of the BB Gun, aside from the movie reference, isn't as strange as it may seem. There are IRL air/CO2 guns that can deliver as much or more force than a 22LR gun. It is perfectly possible to kill a human with a 22LR, if the shooter is accurate enough to hit a sensitive spot... such as the eye.
I have heard that a headshot with a 22LR can cause the bullet to "bounce" inside the skull, causing even more damage than a bullet that goes straight through. I don't know if that's true, and I haven't found any source that can confirm it, so take that for what it's worth.
A shovel can be a pretty decent improvised melee weapon, though I doubt it will last for very many hits if it's swung like a bat. It would surely deal more damage than 1-3 HP.
lmao the intensity in how you said "radioactive SHIT" is fuggin hilarious
There's a mission in fallout 76 that brings you to get a syringer which is presumably pre-war considering the mission came out before they added people into fallout 76
Timeline of 76 is a meme tbf
@@AdminAbuse ngl, unless they'll being some new plague to kill everyone I refuse to believe that random 76 Dwellers built a better society than anyone else and just dipped somewhere
I guess Bethesda overnerfed syringer after they realised how powerful a dart gun in Fallout 3 was (which is kinda syringer-like weapon).
I find it hard to believe that a recurve bow fires faster than compound bow.
The Abilene BB gun in New Vegas is actually surprisingly viable for survival runs. The BBs are dirt cheap, nearly weightless, and solid in large quantity at several shops.
For 'things that are technically weapons' the paddle ball from FO4 is pretty high up there.
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Ok here is a challenge for you, in fallout 4 there is a creation club set that involves ramps and giant steel balls. Those balls are classified as junk by the game which means this super heavy junk can be picked up after being crafted at any settlement and be loaded into the junk jet, enjoy the mayhem....
Wow I've never been this early before, anyway love your vids as always king,
Glory to Atom ⚛️
Just wanted to let you know, the two bow skins; The Survivors bow and the Deep Cave Hunters bow you switched the name of. Also the Bone Bow skin (named wrong on the bow but named correctly on the compound bow), just to let you know both skins can be used interchangeably on either the compound or bow.
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I would have liked to see a hacking dart of the syringer.
You missed the FONV Alien Blaster
Goosebumps throughout the video thanks to the incredible Far Harbor soundtrack you included 💙
39:05 an orbital strike, at least the real life concept known as project thor, would have been a tungsten rod dropped from orbit that deals immense damage through kinetic force alone. Another term commonly used for orbital strikes is "kinetic bombardment". They are said to travel at over mach 10. It was obviously never built, however it was due to a treaty concerning space weapons rather than impracticality.
You forgot one thing in this video... My Hard Iron Fists!
I have a soft spot for yhe BB guns since theyre one of the few video game "guns" i can use irl
in f76 you can find 2 syringers in the enclave research facility
Idk how he doesn't have 500k subscribers seeing his lore is so damn accurate! Idk but thats my option i guess
the Boomerang in fallout tactics is an easter egg to the feral child mad max 2
Thank Atom for this important information 🙏
Anyone who plays the Fallout 2d20 game just lettin y’all know I took this weapon and came up with some crazy new syringe types. My favorite is the Deathclaw Breeding Pheremones.
Edit: I got you Radking!
Pheromones
@@AdminAbuse Deathclaw Breeding Pheremones: “Summons a deathclaw to come charging in, attacking anyone in its way who isnt the afflicted, once they reach the afflicted they’ll be dragged off for…oh dear…”
Crafting Perk Requirments: Chemist, Animal Friend 2, A real sick sense of humor
Component Requirements: Deathclaw Egg + Deathclaw Meat, Nuka Cherry
0:50 Syringer
9:51 Boomerang
10:38 Chakram
11:02 Shovel
15:16 Bows
21:18 Homing Beacon
23:28 Synth Relay Grenade
25:46 Dross
27:40 BB Gun
35:27 Fantasy Ball
36:12 Turbo Fort Fertilizer
37:05 Orbital Scam/Strike Beacon
I love your guns of fallout videos
that guns n bullets magazine wasnt displaying a pipe gun. that was a zip gun. zip guns were and are used as a quick, slap together pistol when its crunch time.
thanks, this was a really good video!
18:33 Hornbows do exist/ed, especially in asian (and north american) regions very prominently. Though not made from antlers but goat horn usually
i mean you're kinda assuming the syringer has been sitting in those medical buildings since before the war
i think its entirely possible someone after the bombs fell had a syringer and set up camp in medical buildings for easy access to syringes
Rose’s syringer requires you to install the Karma barrel. It doesn’t come with it
Given how in Fallout 76 the only well known location that has a background fitting to the syringer being closed pre war. What is now fort defiance if I can remember the name correctly. Arkos and other places having other experiments in mind. I say it's the lack of needing such a thing. West Virginia's population seemed a lot more... mentally or medically stable before the bombs.
I used syringer a lot in fo4 but only for pacifing deathclaws, because I can't bring myself to killing those cute death lizards